Educational Background

B.S., magna cum laude, University of Scranton, 1993

M.A., Duke University, 1997

Ph.D., Duke University, 1999

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Brooklyn College of CUNY, 1999-2001

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in animal learning and motivation, especially the psychological experiences of pleasure and reward and their functions in Pavlovian conditioning. My research is primarily focused on appetite, such as the factors that make certain foods rewarding or desirable, and the role of "pleasure" in guiding food selection and intake. Much of this work involves studying the ways that animals learn to prefer or avoid certain foods based on experience with their positive or negative consequences. I am also interested in the early development of appetite controls, food selection, and learning processes in infancy.

Courses Taught

General Psychology

Learning

Learning Laboratory

Appetite and Eating Behavior

Learning and Adaptive Behavior

Selected Publications

Myers, K.P. (2007). Robust preference for a flavor paired with intragastric glucose acquired in a single trial. Appetite, 48, 123-127.

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